A Token Effort

[markn]

Here's some tokens I've got recently.  The Gibraltar tokens I bought just before Christmas off of eBay.  I did some research on these types of tokens a few years ago for a friend and these were the first I'd seen for sale on eBay in Australia.  The grades are surprisingly good and I like the spelling error on the 1802 tokens.  

The last token is a "conder token" to go with the one that PPH got me for Christmas.  I like the representation of the loom.  It was struck by John Fincham of Haverhill in Suffolk and is a half penny.

[trout]

what is the Quart of ? RUM?

[markn]

According to this page on the Gibraltar treasury website (http://www.treasury.gov.gi/Early_Coins0101.html) the quarto is probably a corruption of the Spanish "cuartos" or "fourth".  Presumably at "quarto" was valued at a farthing (1/4 of a penny) and a 2 quarto at a half penny.

[humpybong]

NICE!!!!

Very Nice.......Hmmmmm more to add to my wish list


 :-/

[Unicorn]

I like how they added the O in the later coins. Groovy Manufactory Loom.  :good:

[robbiegal]

fabulous imagery in times when there was no TV, newspaper print only really getting started around 1833 and photographs were an expensive commodity

[Sapyx]

...the quarto is probably a corruption of the Spanish "cuartos" or "fourth".  Presumably at "quarto" was valued at a farthing (1/4 of a penny) and a 2 quarto at a half penny.

The quarto was 1/24th of a Spanish real, or 1/192nd of a silver dollar. With the Spanish dollar pegged at 52 pence in Gibraltar at the time, that means that a quarto did not have a convenient exchange rate to sterling: 52/192nd or 13/48th of a penny, or 1 and 1/12 farthings. Merchants probably treated farthings and quartos at par in everyday trade, but they'd have needed some of those little tiny quarter-farthing coins to make proper exchange between the two systems when larger numbers of coins were involved.